District Shooting and Archery Competition

We were pleased to be able to hold our District Archery and Shooting competitions again after a two year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event was held at the 18th Norwich Scout HQ over the weekend of the 2nd & 3rd April and 18 teams from 10 Groups took part in different shooting and archery disciplines.

Archery Competition

The archery competition was made up of 2 disciplines in which the scouts had 9 scoring arrows at 10m and 9 scoring arrows at 15m.

The scores for each team were then totalled up to give us an overall winning team along with individual winners at 10m, 15m and an overall individual winner

The winners were:
1st place team – 1st Drayton A – Archie Bunn, Freddie Brown, Julian Mander, Tom Frosdick
2nd place team – 3rd & 4th Norwich B – Lily-Rose Arnull, Lewis Parsons, Wade Matthews, Noah Gibbs
3rd place team – 16th Norwich B – Harriet Spears, Ethan Holmes-Smith, Leo Osborne, Megan Semmens

Highest combined scorer – Ethan Holmes-Smith (16th Norwich B)
Highest scorer 10m – Archie Bunn (1st Drayton A)
Highest scorer 15m – Ethan Holmes-Smith (16th Norwich B)

Shooting Competition

The shooting competition consisted of four different disciplines – kneeling, standing, prone with a rifle and pistol shooting

Again, the scores for each team were then totalled up for all of the shooting activities to give us an overall winning team, along with individual winners for each of the separate disciplines.

The winners were:
1st place team – 1st Horsford & St Faiths A – George Haxell, William Sokalsky, Wilfred Wise, Aaron Stanton
2nd place team – 3rd & 4th Norwich A – Alyssa Hilton, Dylan Curtis, Euan Conneely, Bella Wright
3rd place team – 1st Drayton A – Archie Bunn, Freddie Brown, Julian Mander, Tom Frosdick

Highest combined scorer for shooting – Alyssa Hilton (3rd & 4th Norwich A)
Highest pistols scorer – Emily Gallop (27th Norwich A)
Highest rifle prone scorer – Freddie Brown (1st Drayton A)
Highest rifle kneeling scorer – Joel Blanch (11th Norwich B)
Highest rifle standing scorer – Alyssa Hilton (3rd & 4th Norwich A)

Many thanks to all of the leaders that gave up their time to help organise and run this event.

Mike Bool
District Scouter for Scouts